North Star Elementary

North Star Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Bend, Oregon, run under Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. The school enrolls 319 students in grades K through 5.

North Star Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, a district that works with 16,838 students overall.

Looking at the student body, North Star Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, North Star Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at North Star Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, North Star Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Deschutes County) shows that median household income runs about $92,758, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. North Star Elementary is one of 53 public schools in Deschutes County (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students).

Desert Sky Montessori is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Star Elementary. On composite proficiency, North Star Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.